COMMENT The unveiling of the latest budget and its aftermath has been notable for two developments that seem to epitomise the racial bias of BN and the state system which it controls, as well as revealing of the racist character of the country's major stakeplayers.

The first was the disclosure of an allocation of $50 million each to national-type Chinese and Tamil primary schools, as compared with the allocation of RM450 million to the Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan (SK).

No doubt, the two mother tongue medium schools have a smaller student population than the SRJK or national-type medium chools and should not have expected to receive the same quantum of funding...